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You’ll be able to touch upon issues so long as they’re not going to be detrimental to others or derogatory. It doesn’t prohibit folks from talking out; it cautions them to pause and take into consideration the ramifications of what they’re posting.
— Cari Brunelle, founding associate of legislation agency advisory Baretz+Brunelle, in feedback given to the American Lawyer, within the wake of Perkins Coie’s resolution to fireside an affiliate who made social media comments about the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Brunelle went on to say that social media insurance policies “ought to be aligned together with your agency’s values and tradition a lot that those that see your response assume it makes good sense. When organizations don’t have a course of that’s adopted in each circumstance, their selections could be pushed by emotion as an alternative. And that’s after they get into hassle.”
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